May 2019

May 03, 2019

The following section is sponsored by The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California

Dr. Frisch now offers an Online Group Coaching Program starting October 26, 2018!Dr. Frisch is now offering an Online Group Coaching Program designed to deepen your understanding of Dr. Frisch’s method provided through the affiliated Audio CD/MP3 Series. Join a community with other students and professionals that offers you a dedicated learning path, an opportunity for in-depth discussion, Q&A, case presentation, and experiential dyads. The group offers you feedback from colleagues and Dr. Frisch and helps you integrate and apply this material to your current practice. Click here for more information.

Foreword by Judith Pearson, Director, The International Masterson Institute!

“Dr. Patricia Frisch’s book is a must-read guidebook for psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health and medical professionals. Anyone interested in psychology, personality or character types, verbal analysis, and somatic approaches will enjoy her lively discussion. It includes an easy-to-read, step-by-step methodology for treating the whole patient while supporting the whole therapist. The reader is introduced to Wilhelm Reich, the father of somatic psychology and character analysis, James Masterson M.D. and Carl Jung.”

Whole Therapist, Whole Patient: Integrating Reich, Masterson, and Jung in Modern Psychotherapy is filled with tools and techniques for therapists, instructions on dream analysis, case management, working with difficult patients and much more.

You can watch Dr. Frisch’s book event at book Passage in Corte Madera here.

Dr. Frisch also offers an 8-week Online Interactive Book Discussion Group designed for all audiences and focuses on the following:

My video book interview is available and you can watch it here. In this 30-minute segment, I reveal the table of contents, discuss the purpose of the book, and elaborate on other relevant topics. You’ll also see interesting footage of past trainings and patient demos and see film of my office and where I wrote the book.

Orgonomy is a mind-body approach to health. Allopathic medicine (in some quarters) is shifting toward embracing this paradigm, as physicians understand that diseases emanate from a complex interactional mind-body field rather than being limited to a silo of discreet symptoms.

In Orgonomy, we outline a map of the body as it correlates to character structure, and each area – eyes, mouth, cervical, chest, diaphragm, belly and pelvis – has its own functional capacity to open or close its gates to the movement of energy (including sensation, perception, capacity for movement and release) throughout the body.

We designate this map as the seven segments of armoring and describe how each segment acts to either fulfill or limit our capacity to experience aliveness and pleasure; depending on how armored (tense, unyielding, slack) each segment is (see blog Reich’s Understanding of Character and Body Expression, August 30, 2017).

The ocular segment functions as the vehicle for taking in reality, seeing clearly with open eyes that have the ability to express all feelings – softness, tenderness, aggression, receptivity, curiosity. Armored eyes do not interface with clarity, thus distorting reality and resulting in faulty assumptions. Rather than unobstructed curiosity, armoring creates barriers to sincere and unprejudiced interest.

Dr. Frisch also offers a full range of courses for students and mental health professionals that are CE accredited through CPA OPD and other licensing boards that accredit: MFTs, Nurses LCSWs and others.

Our therapy model is very active and engages the client in a process of transformation that is palpable after the first session. Dr. Frisch’s unique synthesis utilizes the principles and techniques of Wilhelm Reich updated with complimentary theoreticians. As the father of somatic psychology, Reich created a mind/body discipline that incorporates biophysical interventions through breath, direct manipulation, and physical expression. This biophysical work is paired with verbal analysis that captures each client’s character type and helps shift patterns that have caused pain and suffering – all contained within a strong, spirited relationship between client and therapist. The result is profound character transformation and significantly lower levels of stress, muscular contraction, and physical and psychological symptoms such as depression and anxiety. Dr. Frisch helps with relationship issues and supports transformative, transcendental objectives when applicable.

Learn more about our services here.

Orgonomy and the Work of Wilhelm ReichWatch this 2-minute excerpt from SAGE Video Collections, which briefly describes the practice of Orgonomy. SAGE asked Dr. Patricia Frisch to join their reference library as an author in order to help viewers understand this powerful somatic therapy. The full 30-minute video can be accessed through SAGE. Let us know what you think of the clip: assist@orgonomictherapy.com.

Patricia R. Frisch, Ph.D., psychologist, MFT, is an expert in Wilhelm Reich’s characteranalytic and somatic approach, known as Orgonomy. She has created her own unique method, integrating Masterson, and Jung with Reich that defines the nuts and bolts of clinical practice. Reichian theory is at heart of current somatic approaches. As founder and Director of The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California (OINC), she supervises and trains professionals in Orgonomy: characteranalysis, somatic interventions, diagnostic typologies, and enhanced clinical skills at her own facility and at clinics in the Bay Area. She led workshops at Esalen® Institute for 10 years. Dr. Frisch has created a comprehensive audio training program, which provides long-distance learning and certification options to students throughout the U.S. and internationally. She is the author of Whole Therapist, Whole Patient: Integrating Reich, Masterson and Jung in Modern Psychotherapy published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. She also authored the Orgonomy (Reichian Therapy) chapter of SAGE Publications’ (2015) Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy and published a video through SAGE (2015). She maintains an active private practice in Mill Valley, California. To learn more, please clickDr. Frisch.